Or...the Mason's have many secrets, and so do the mesons.
Control over electron-spin states in the "active particulate" for
LENR, especially as coherent manipulation of operating variables
at the terahertz frequency range, appears to be an
under-appreciated control method in getting consistent results.
Regular pulsation at this high frequency (hopefully
near-coherence) may be responsible for pushing D ions just the
"right distance" into the inner orbitals of the host matrix, so
that there is a greatly enhanced probability for QM tunneling or
catalyzed fusion.
Now thanks to "King George" (Miley) we know exactly where (how far
into the Pd atomic shell) that distance is.
In effect, at the close scale of nanometers --> picometers, many
forms of LENR may resemble a finer-scale version of sonofusion -
except that the active particulate is a tiny solid sphere of
"condensed matter" perhaps a few hundred atoms, and with an active
core of a single Pd atom. Many deuterons converge at this one
location, due to spherical convergence.
As such, the end results of CF should be amenable to approximately
10^7 greater output power than water-based sonofusion (based on
the higher frequency). No wonder the latest efforts in SF research
are hybrids where palladium is added to the fluid. A
once-secretive researcher in the area is Roger Stringham of First
Gate Energies, who has lately presented several posters at the
International Conferences on Cold Fusion. See his abstract for
March 2003 and later and his patent application US20020090047A1.
This could be an important patent, if granted, but I know for a
fact that prior IP from other experimenters makes similar claims -
that is- for sonofusion augmented by Pd.
IMHO they should just dispense with any liquid altogether, and
align multiple transducers right onto a target of fully loaded
metal. Here is the excellent summary of the field on a web-site
mentioned by Jed recently:
http://members.nuvox.net/~on.jwclymer/snf/
But there is another curious fact which may lead to a better
understanding of the overall dynamics. Looking at the similarity
between LENR and K-shell capture radioactivity leads to
appreciation that both reactions occur at nuclear distances of
picometers with reaction probability times of megaseconds...
coincidental?
Well, first of all, the possibility that the LENR reaction rate is
limited by *megaseconds* may at first sound discouraging until you
realize that active sites in even a small cell, can be on the
order of 10^20. Looked at in this way, the megasecond rate is more
a throttle than a
hindrance. But the similarity is also telling us something about
resonance - and suggesting a possible way to speed up the
effective reaction rate, which in the past is more like
gigaseconds/active site.
Consider a static electric field... in it, an accelerating charged
particle (e-)traveling at near light speed will actually perceive
the field as electromagnetic, not just electrostatic. Two
electrons traveling together at near light speed are consequently
both attracted and repelled. If this is not the basis behind the
"spintronics" area of R&D, then this phenomenon of balanced
repulsive/attractive forces is an important part of that
emerging field.
But spintronics cannot offer any help to explain how the Coulomb
barrier between two D nuclei can be shielded when within a metal
matrix, however... in 1989 another Jones took care of that problem
....the meson. But what its it about the inner electrons of a Pd
atom that seems to provide this shielding and/or catalyzation of
fusion, and/or present an enhanced probability for QM tunneling.
There aren't any real mesons there, are there?
A tentative answer is in the wind...
The provocative paper of Hora, Miley et al. "Low Energy Nuclear
Reactions resulting as picometer interactions with similarity to
K-Shell electron capture," given at the Eleventh International
Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2004. Marseille,
France.
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/HoraHlowenergyna.pdf
has been mentioned before, and one key concept from it this
**similarity of CF to K-Shell electron capture.**
Where does that leave us? Well first of all, we must keep in mind
that there are always two K-shell electrons traveling on similar
trajectories in all atoms (except hydrogen) and in the mid-z
atoms like Pd, these duets are moving pretty fast, the binding
energy being 24.35 keV. And now that we know (or suspect we know)
where it is, within the spatial confines of the Pd atomic shell,
that fusion actually occurs, can we perhaps take it one-step
further than Miley, et al, dare to do BTW, that guy named Al, he
sure gets around, don'e?
Is there any significance to this particular binding energy, ~24
keV? And if so does it point to the shielding methodology?
Yes, or should I say: "perhaps" and stay tuned.
We may now be onto something on Vortex that even the great Miley
has overlooked, or else we are about to steal a bit of his
thunder...
Jones
Hint...and with a little dramatization, imagine Mr. Robinson,
advising young Benjamin Braddock, recent physics graduate at
Montclair state... "son, I just have two words of advice for
you"... ta-da... a plaintive S&G duet starts playing in the
background... "virtual mesons"
